Comments on: I’m Suing The X Prize Foundation http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: lucas http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/#comment-24242 lucas Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:49:55 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/#comment-24242 Nice! Hey, did you hear Peter on NPR today?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9359808

They’re on the move brother!

Cheers!

]]> By: Brad Warbiany http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/#comment-24111 Brad Warbiany Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:18:57 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/#comment-24111 LOL… Yes, it’s a joke. I’ve long been a supporter of this method to drive innovation, much preferring it to government expenditure. I wouldn’t sue them over this, nor do I think they actually stole the idea.

]]> By: Lucas http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/#comment-24110 Lucas Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:03:55 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/04/02/im-suing-the-x-prize-foundation/#comment-24110 Hey there Brad! “Great minds think alike” is what I think we can sum this up to. For the record, the X Prize Foundation has been working on guidelines for their Automotive Prize for several years now–well, before your post in December of last year–and most likely in parallel to your efforts back in August 2005.

I attended the X Prize Cup last year and they were talking about being near completion on the criteria then…so, I really think it is cool that they are finally implementing this. You’ll see their original blog bringing in the public back in June of 2006 here: http://autoxprize.typepad.com/axp/2006/06/index.html

Though the original endowments were made well before that.

I hope that you were one of the folks providing input.. if not–it certainly isn’t too late to get involved with this remarkable group of folks.

Again, I think this is one of those “Great Minds Think Aline” cases and I hope your cunning sense of humor isn’t misinterpreted as a sign of hostility–but rather a sign of support.

Anyway, I’ll check back here in your blog to see what your thoughts are. I think the notion of suing a non-profit foundation that is trying to move our technologies forward is kinda weak.

I’m sure their $10M medical X Prize that they are working on had folks considering other’s ideas as well. (You know, the Nobel Prize–which has a cash award–could be seen as the impetus for this, though I highly doubt that we’ll here anything out of them saying the Genomics X Prize is ripping off the idea from the Nobel Prize in Medicine)–just a thought. Anyway, great minds in this country should be working in concert–not against each other–when trying to revolutionize our backward ways.

Can you imagine if Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson sued each other over credit for the Declaration of Independence? We might still be British today.

By all means though, please keep the ranting and dialog… it’ll help push and focus folks’ efforts on getting to a good progress in this area.

Lastly, were you in the process of starting your own foundation to pursue this? Do you have millions of dollars to offer up? If not, I’d say good job on helping influence those who do have the means to make this a reality–because I sure don’t have the organization, time, (and of course money) to make ideas like this a reality–they do and seem to be able to rally support from the masses.

Kudos to YOU and the folks at X Prize!

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